In category: Health and Wellbeing

By Fred Cooper A guest post in the blog series on ‘Solitude in the Time of COVID-19‘ from historian Fred Cooper, who offers a path through some contexts for and responses to the current crisis. https://solitudes.qmul.ac.uk/blog/covid-19-and-the-loneliness-crisis/  

By Charlotte Jones In collaboration with workers, trade unions and local campaigns, this project responds to rapidly changing circumstances in the hospitality sector since the UK government began to ease the national lockdown in July 2020. Due to concerns about the COVID-19 transmission risks involved in visiting public venues, the safe preparation and maintenance of these […]

By Fred Cooper and Charlotte Jones In this article Charlotte Jones and Fred Cooper argue that Covid-19 seems to be creating the conditions for new extremes of detachment and isolation amongst students. Covid-19 has amplified student loneliness and distress

By Fred Cooper and Charlotte Jones A project on loneliness and mental health in collaboration with student co-researchers, most recently in the charged and altered context of the Covid-19 pandemic. Together researchers and students developed a creative journaling project for the sharing of experiences and artistic responses to the lockdown. https://wcceh.org/projects/beacon-loneliness-and-community/

By Olly Clabburn, Fred Cooper, and Charlotte Jones lockdownblues.co.uk A website and virtual scrapbook for the sharing of experiences and observations on loneliness and isolation before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown. The project focuses on the South West of England, but contributions are also welcome from further afield.  

Professor Luna Dolezal, Dr Fred Cooper and Dr Arthur Rose have received a UKRI-AHRC COVID Rapid Response Grant (AH/V013483/1) for a project called “Scenes of Shame and Stigma in COVID-19”.  This project will identify and investigate, through philosophical, cultural studies and historical analyses, the sites and circumstances of shame, shaming, stigma and discrimination during the first 12 […]

By Lucy Osler “Connecting with others online is not a new practice, of course. However, with lockdown measures in place across much of the globe, our social lives have been forced to migrate online to an even greater degree and intensity than ever before. Working from home, happy hour on Zoom, family games on Steam, […]

By: Karen Mattick, Jason Hancock and Daniele Carrieri This project explores the experience of ‘the class of COVID’ new medical graduates who are starting work in the UK during the COVID-19 crisis. It is led by Newcastle University School of Medical Education, with colleagues from Exeter University, Plymouth University and Queen’s University Belfast. It is […]

By Sonia Oreffice We investigate gender differences across socioeconomic and wellbeing dimensions after three months of lockdown in the UK, using an online sample of approximately 1,500 Prolific respondents representative of the population with regards to age, sex and ethnicity. We find: Women’s mental health is worse than men’s. Women are more concerned about getting […]